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SPLC paid to fuel Ku Klux Klan’s hate, then raised money to put it out

The Southern Poverty Law Center had the ear and trust of America’s politicians and institutions as it sought to identify the most heinous evildoers in our society — and by doing so, to help eradicate them.

With indictments from a grand jury, we’re now discovering that the SPLC was playing both sides of the racism-industrial complex.

It was deliberately keeping a dying enemy on life support so that it could fight against it perpetually, the better to rake in donor cash and raise its own political leverage.

A federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the SPLC Tuesday for wire fraud and related charges stemming from secret payments of more than $3 million to individuals tied to the KKK and neo-Nazi groups, according to the Department of Justice.

One leader of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., received about $270,000 over eight years.

A second individual, embedded in a neo-Nazi group, was paid $1 million to steal 25 boxes of the organization’s documents.

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